The Speakers Encyclopedia Of Wit Wisdom And Humor PDF Download

Excerpt from Wit and Humor for Public Speakers If, however, stories do not actually illustrate a point, it is better to leave them untold - unless it be on an occasion of gen eral merriment, when there is a round of story-telling simply for the sake of good Cheer. But for the speaker to go out of the way of his theme, for no apparent purpose except to bring 'in jokes, is inexcusable. The friends of an evangelist who was conducting meetings in a cer tain city, made arrangements with officers of the Young Men's Christian Association to have him address a large number of high-school boys in the association building. The idea was com mendable, and the opportunity one that any lover of young man hood might prize. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.